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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by vwatson on Friday March 12, 2021 @11:03AM (#26437182)
The Popper part is easy: In the 1970s, during the student revolts, many right leaning people (who would be called fascists these days) got platforms on talk shows and politely debated their left wing counterparts.

It did not lead to the Fourth Reich, on the contrary, public opinion has shifted to the left in and after the 70s.

The right wing backlash you see now is a direct result of the insanity and totalitarianism of today's "left", which is really a smoke screen for the corporate-directed suppression of the middle classes (both black and white).

This Popper statement, made in a completely different era, is overused to shut down opponents and justify censorship.

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by AshWolfy on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:30PM (#26438286)
You can draw a line from rush limbaugh to tuker carlson, they built a legion of people who they encouraged not to think for themselves and now they are sicking them on the world

>insanity and totalitarianism

citation needed? Thats literally the same line limbaugh used in the 70s

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Re:You can't censor away extremism or any other problem by dang on Friday March 12, 2021 @02:28PM (#26439830)
Would you please stop perpetuating flamewar and posting low-quality ideological battle comments to HN? You've been doing a ton of it on HN, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is for. Regardless of how right your underlying positions are or you feel they are, discussion here needs to be better than this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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